iOS 7 Music App sorting issues

Another issue I have noticed but forgot to mention and this goes back to using Music through blue tooth in my car ... in iOS6, whatever album/song I left off on would be there, right on the car's display screen ready to go, the next time I went to listen in the car. No longer! I get a blank screen on the car's display and I have to go and choose whatever I want to listen to all over again. This is really so inconvenient especially if I decide to switch from XM Satellite to my Music player. I have steering wheel controls to switch through Satellite, terrestrial radio and blue tooth. The whole idea is to not take my eyes off the road, right? Well, Music has to wait now until I'm at a red light or I decide to listen before I even drive off and make my choice. This wholle Music issue is imprortant to me. So much so that, heaaven forbid, I'm looking into a Galaxy now. I'm totally out of my contract with AT&T next month. I'm doing my research now to figure out if it's cost effective to drop the iPhone altogether. So disappointed.

Thanks again to the person who started this thread. It's been an interesting read for sure. :-)

Cathco - I agree. I've got the 5s on order right now because I thought I needed to stay in the "Apple ecosystem" before I take it out of the box, I'm going to see how galaxy handles music.

How encouraging to see a mainstream article. Makes me feel that it's not just a few of us. And Apple might pay more attention than to us.

When there are lots of replys from people experiencing the same thing, sometimes Apple will look at a thread on these forums and take the feedback from there. Remember battery-gate with iOS 6.X?

But if you really want to be heard, you need to submit your feedback through the Feedback page Apple has set up for it.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/

If hundreds of people submit feedback there it might get something done.

Really pleased to find this thread tonight and realise I'm not alone. Logged my feedback via apple a few days ago, though reported it as a "bug" as I was struggling to believe any idiot would consciously "design" this intentionally. Clearly apple developers are not music fans. Come on guys sort it out! The only solution I've found is dig out the old handset which doesn't have this idiotic ios7 installed on it.

Just want to add my displeasure with the new app as well. Having to scroll through all the songs in an album once you are under the artist is a joke. For us music lovers who have multiple albums from an artist this makes it horrible to find what you are after.

Other things that have made this a major downgrade are

1. The inability to play podcasts through it.

2. Having to go to control centre to switch audio target instead of doing it locally within the app.

3. Bluetooth dramas. Fixed the skip issues by resetting, but still cannot pause.

4. Not having the option to disable cover art in artist list. Why make the list so long unnecessarily. Especially if you don't have or don't care about cover art.

5. Not visually easy to distinguish an letter change. Apple should add a little line seperator between letters to make it really easy and simple to see where you are. I have attached an example.

Overall I really like new feel of IOS 7, seems to work good on the iPhone 5. I just wish the homepage didn't look like rainbow vomit, wish we had a choice of default app icons and this **** music app stuff up.

Come on Apple, please allow us music lovers to have some choice in how we sort our music and display it.

I'm having a similar problem with the situation where I want to hear a song, but can't remember which album it's in. In ios 6, I could select an artist. At the top of the screen was the entry All Albums. Tapping that gave me a list of songs in all the albums in alphabetical order. Finding the song I wanted to hear was a snap.

I saw the Search function, but that is limited in usefulness because it searches the entire music database, not just the artist I want to search.

I'm very disappointed with the Music app. I agree that an update should enhance functionality as opposed to removing useful features.

I fully agree. I loved to browse my albums in landscape mode, the new design in iOS7 is a giant leap back. Even with the few music I store on my phone, it's a painful search now. PLEASE go back the old sorting asap.

Concerning Lagu, it's very nice, but has anyone tried saving its queue as a playlist? It displays a dialog, but I found no way to bring up the keyboard, and when I press OK, it complains that I didn't enter a name. I see no way to enter the name, so I'm wondering if the feature is broken, or maybe it's unlocked when you pay.

Just adding another +1 to complete dissatisfaction with the new music ap. I can't understand how anyone could've thought this new arrangement was a good idea. I would go back to ios6 if I could, for this one issue alone.

Thanks glg7. Great suggestion. Have tried it and works great.

I have also provided my feedback through apple's official channel so they can hopefully take note of everyones concerns and fix this app or at least make it as good as it was.

Another thing I have noticed which is a little anoying is if you have many albums by an artist and select an album to start playing (after clicking on the artist first), when it gets to the end, it continues on playing the next album once the first finishes. If you have 20 albums under an artist and you click on the first it will play them all. So now you have to select it through albums, if you can remember the names of all 2000+ albums on your iPhone. I know I can't, but I know the artists.

Looking forward to this app being fixed by apple, but if not at least we have Lagu and I'm sure there will be many more copy apps with a modern layout, but useful features.

Fingers crossed.

Like everyone else on this thread, I am very unhappy with the changes to the music function in IOS 7, and I have followed the advice to send my complaints in to Apple. I really do not like how albums are now sorted according to their title (so that "Abby Road" comes before "Beggar's Banquet"), which makes it very hard to find specific albums by a specific artist. And I really don't like how the icons have been reduced to these tiny things which are hard to read.

But it seems to me that there is method in this madness. Apple seems to be really privileging playing individual songs rather than albums. In other words, the music function now reflects the "unbundling" logic behind iTunes. It's certainly a move that serious music collectors--as many in this thread seem to be--won't like. Yet I guess that we are not the target audience here.

No iTunes Match support in Lagu unfortunately, which makes it useless for me, but otherwise it looks like it would be a great ap.